Tonight's meeting celebrated the three
year Anniversary of lafcpug and the birth of FCP 4 and it was
HUGE. Well of course it was. To help us celebrate we brought
in Andrew Baum of Pinnacle to show off the brand new Cinewave
4 for Jaguar,Tim Wilson to show off Boris
Red 3GL (boy is it fast) FCP
4 RT Extreme,Show and Tells,Stump the Gurus
and World Famous Raffle. Also in the lobby was Promax
showing off new toys, 12
inch Design showing off their very cool motion graphic backgrounds,
the FCP Guru table AND Panasonic showing off the brand
new SDX900
DVCPRO Camera and the AJ-SD930
DVCPRO 50 Deck running under FCP4. PLUS, direct from the
WWDC, a report on the G5
PowerMac. What does it mean for FCP users? Whew!

The Agenda

6:30PM - 7:15PM - Stump the Gurus
To allow for questions concerning FCP 4 we added 15 minutes to
this months Stump the Gurus. An all star line up of Gurus included
Andrew Balis, Ken Stone
and special guests, author and educator Charles (Chawla) Roberts
("FCP 2 for Firewire Editing" and Final Cut Express)
Ralph Fairweather co Founder of 2-pop and Steve Martin
of Ripple Training
as they attempted to answer all of your questions and solve all
of your problems concerning FCP. And of course they did.

7:20PM - 7:45PM
RT Extreme - Steve Martin
So how extreme is FCP
4 RT Extreme,? What kind of RT can you expect on YOUR Mac?
What is this "Safe Mode"? What filters and transitions
work with RT Extreme. Steve
Martin will answer all these questions and more as we go
in depth and inside RT Extreme and try our best to break it.

7:45PM -7:55PM "Turquoise"
Show and Tell - GiGi Mullins and Stephen Savage
Turquoise is the first feature-length digital video western,
presented by the creative team of GiGi Mullins and Stephen
Savage. This is the first feature for both Savage and Mullins,
who is only the second woman since the silent film era to direct
a western. Mullins also served as the project's editor, working
entirely with Final Cut Pro. Savage wrote
the award-winning script and played the lead character, as well
as composing the film's score and editing sound. Turquoise
is a true independent endeavor, produced on a micro-budget of
less than $7000, with principal photography completed in just
3 weeks. The quality of the final product, we are proud to say,
far surpasses the limitations of money and time.
For more information visit their web site turquoisethemovie.com

7:55PM - 8:30PM - Cinewave 4 - Andrew
Baum
There is no other Capture card on the market with as many Real
Time Effects as Cinewave
4. Version 4 includes real-time support for DV50, Apple LiveType
titling, the high-quality Animation codec, video out with Apple
Soundtrack, and support for up to 5 uncompressed real-time tracks
(3 video and 2 graphics with alpha channels). CineWave includes
high-quality offline support with real-time HD and SD capture
into PhotoJPEG, DV25/DV50 and CineOffline; new real-time effects
for DV25/50, PhotoJPEG, etc.; new high-precision 32-bit floating-point
rendering; real-time reverse telecine from 30 or 29.97 FPS video
capture to 24 FPS footage in both HD and SD formats; real-Time
HD Effects; and support for Steinberg Nuendo and up to eight
tracks of audio out with Final Cut Pro 4.Who better to show it to us than the
original product manager for Final Cut Pro and now current product
manager for Cinewave, Andrew Baum. Andrew is always entertaining
and Cinewave 4 is a must see even if you are not in the market
for a SD or HD solution.

8:30PM - 8:55PM -
Break
In the Lobby will be Promax
showing off new toys and answering questions on the just announced
G5 PowerMac, plus showing off the Cinewave
4 for Jaguar and the brand new Panasonic AJ-SD930
DVCPRO 50 Deck running under FCP4. (hook it up via firewire
folks) Intelligent
Assistance will also be showing off the must have Troubleshooter
for FCP and Great Visual FX CDs.
Panasonic reps will also be on hand (BEFORE the meeting only)
showing off the new SDX900
DVCPRO Camera. Also in the lobby will be 12
inch Design showing off their very cool and highly original
Motion Graphics backgrounds. Plus another addition of the FCP
Guru table where we "guarantee" you'll get your
FCP 4 questions answered. We will also be selling past "lafcpug on DVD" meetings.

8:55PM - 9:30PM
- Boris Red 3GL - Tim Wilson
Forget everything you know about Boris Red. You haven't seen
it until you see the brand new Boris Red 3GL. And no one shows
it better than lafcpug favorite Tim Wilson.Boris
Red 3GL is the first integrated 3D compositing, titling,
and effects application to implement OpenGL hardware acceleration
technology and it is wicked fast and works INSIDE FCP or as a
stand alone application. If you dont understand Open GL hardware
acceleration technology you will after this presentation. It
is the future and the future is here.

The following raffle
przes were given away and we are grateful for the donations

Special thanks must go to Chris Horgan
for taking tickets. Ken stone for taking pics. Dan Brockett and Tony Peck for taping the show for
the DVD, John Levulis for doing
the lights and of course Promax
for footing the bill.